14 posts tagged “green”
13 Things I need to do this weekend
1. Make my brother a graduation card and shove some cash inside
2. Get my hair cut off, I am officially sick of it
3. get some vegetarian dishes for the meat filled BBQ graduation party for my brother
4. make sure my camera battery is charged for this weekend, in fact, I should do that now. Seems like a detail I will forget if I don't do it now. Okay, charging, glad I did that.
5. do yoga and take a hot shower before SIL digs her massage therapist fingers of steel into my sore muscles. She says she will be here at 11, so it will be about noon.
6. get ink for the printer, I want to print some pictures of those sweet pups from yesterday and give them to the owner.
7. put newly made cat food into containers and put 2 in the freezer
8. Go to the farmers market, on our bicycles. Gas is expensive! The weather is supposed to be great too.
9. make zucchini lasagna for dinner tonight.
10. take a walk this afternoon after my massage / beating. The weather will be Lovely!
11. If I go out to eat with SIL, I need to stick with a big salad, no bad stuff! I am finally starting to see some thinning of my spare tire. NICE!
12. Get a dinner menu done and grocery list, then to the grocery store. yuck.
13. look for beauty wherever I go. Take deep breaths and don't let people get under my skin. There will be a lot of time with family, lots of hiding me inside because I just get so nervous with them. sigh, I mean Deep Cleansing breath ;-)
I really want to say THANK YOU! to all of you for giving me so many happy birthday wishes! I REALLY brightened my weekend.
On Friday we had a nice dinner and I ate too many birthday cupcakes. Saw the stereotype of apathetic teens while waiting in line at the bakery. She was all dressed in black, heavy make-up and Bright Eyes himself waling into this cupcake shop would probably be the only thing to make this girl smile. She was with her mother, texting her friends. Gloomily saying to me "have a happy birthday" as I left. Her voice sounded almost mean, but that is the apathetic teen. I wonder if I was ever like that.
Saturday I went with the wedding party (for SIL's wedding) and we got fitted for the brides made dresses. Depressed after fitting we went shoe shopping. We bought shoes for the dresses. All I asked was that we go a little conservative with the heel. So 4 inches it is.
Do you have any idea how tall I am in those? I am 6' 2"!
I have shrank a bit since high school, thank goodness! I have to practice walking in them. sigh....they look like high school prom shoes, all strappy and silver with rhinestones. I will post a photo soon.
Yesterday I put my order in for my camera, I should get it this week. I get butterflies and slightly nauseas when I spend over $100 on something that is not a bill, and bitter when I have to spend that much on a bill. Haha!
It will take me a little while to get caught up on your blogs, be patient my friends! :-)
Thanks Again for all the birthday greetings!
I have shrank a bit since high school, thank goodness! I have to practice walking in them. sigh....they look like high school prom shoes, all strappy and silver with rhinestones. I will post a photo soon.
Yesterday I put my order in for my camera, I should get it this week. I get butterflies and slightly nauseas when I spend over $100 on something that is not a bill, and bitter when I have to spend that much on a bill. Haha!
It will take me a little while to get caught up on your blogs, be patient my friends! :-)
Thanks Again for all the birthday greetings!
Here is my Friday offering to you.
That store, what we always called the "little store" was where I would walk my baby brother and sister to to get candy, soda, and milk. I would walk with their tiny hand in mine, crossing streets cautiously together, excitedly choosing candy to bring home. Then I would carry their tiny body home on my back, they would be too tired to walk all the way home. I did this with such joy. I was in high school, sister was in elementary school by then, but brother was still a toddler. I did not go out with friends, or attend school dances, I played with them. I would babysit them and watch these amazing little people grow up. Now my Sister is in College, she wants to be a fashion writer for Vogue, my brother is in his last year of high school and wants to be a musician, he plays guitar and writes songs. I am SO proud of them, I feel so fortunate that I had the chance to hold those tiny hands in mine. To be a part of who they have become.
That store, what we always called the "little store" was where I would walk my baby brother and sister to to get candy, soda, and milk. I would walk with their tiny hand in mine, crossing streets cautiously together, excitedly choosing candy to bring home. Then I would carry their tiny body home on my back, they would be too tired to walk all the way home. I did this with such joy. I was in high school, sister was in elementary school by then, but brother was still a toddler. I did not go out with friends, or attend school dances, I played with them. I would babysit them and watch these amazing little people grow up. Now my Sister is in College, she wants to be a fashion writer for Vogue, my brother is in his last year of high school and wants to be a musician, he plays guitar and writes songs. I am SO proud of them, I feel so fortunate that I had the chance to hold those tiny hands in mine. To be a part of who they have become.
So here is my offering from yesterday.
I layered my clothes as much as I could. It was chilly yesterday. The sun was warm though.
I went to my favorite antique store where they gave me a large scrapbook from 1935 with hundreds of pages filled with newspaper clippings about the Dion Quintuplets. They were an oddity back then, for a woman to have 5 babies, and lived through it as well as the babies. The children were basically taken away from the parents by the Doctor who said they needed constant supervision. He made them a sideshow attraction. People drove from all over to watch them play, eat, sleep, and cry. This is how these girls were raised. Reality TV before TV. I saw a documentary about them and interviews with three of the girls. They talked about how hard it was to be raised by nurses rather than parents. Who by the way never saw a penny from the sideshow racket. They were eventually not allowed to even view the children from the visitors area.
Sad.
I layered my clothes as much as I could. It was chilly yesterday. The sun was warm though.
I went to my favorite antique store where they gave me a large scrapbook from 1935 with hundreds of pages filled with newspaper clippings about the Dion Quintuplets. They were an oddity back then, for a woman to have 5 babies, and lived through it as well as the babies. The children were basically taken away from the parents by the Doctor who said they needed constant supervision. He made them a sideshow attraction. People drove from all over to watch them play, eat, sleep, and cry. This is how these girls were raised. Reality TV before TV. I saw a documentary about them and interviews with three of the girls. They talked about how hard it was to be raised by nurses rather than parents. Who by the way never saw a penny from the sideshow racket. They were eventually not allowed to even view the children from the visitors area.
Sad.
I went for a very long walk yesterday, I had to go see a doctor. There is something in one of my breasts. Thankfully after a mammogram, they had to get extra views, then they were not sure and had to get another. Then they had to do the ultrasound, and then another one with another doctor. It turns out I just have very dense breast tissue, phew............... I was getting kind of freaked out.
And to all women who have to get a mammogram, it does NOT hurt! I thought it was going to, but NO! It was uncomfortable to have a woman yanking my breast around and putting it in a vice, but no pain! So that is what I did on Halloween, I got a mammogram and took a walk. : )
And to all women who have to get a mammogram, it does NOT hurt! I thought it was going to, but NO! It was uncomfortable to have a woman yanking my breast around and putting it in a vice, but no pain! So that is what I did on Halloween, I got a mammogram and took a walk. : )
It was dry, but cool. My hat and scarf tightly wrapped my head and neck. It smelled slightly damp with a faint smell of decay. Allowing all of the fungus to grow. I must have seen at least 8 different types in my short walk in our city's watershed. There are many more varieties growing there. Husband runs there and he says he sees the same Asian group of people out in the trails picking some mushrooms and a certain type of leafy plant that grows in the swampy areas.
Husband went on a run and i walked in the woods, trying to really drink everything in. It was lovely.
Husband went on a run and i walked in the woods, trying to really drink everything in. It was lovely.
We had a wind storm roll through the area yesterday, a few trees went down in my area and school let out early which my nephew was thrilled about. A tree fell on his street so I got some free wood for next year to keep me warm. So before the wind came in I went to the backyard and snapped some pictures. I was in my slippers and snowman pajamas. Tip toeing around huge mushrooms. I took several pictures of my monkey tree.
Then this morning it poured so hard I thought the roof would give in, then as fast as it started it stopped. The sun came out, I decided to shed the ducky pajamas and take a quick walk before it gets nasty again. It was so fresh out there, all of the trees that were so full of beautiful red and orange leaves were almost all bare. Some completely bare. All leaves stripped of leaves within a 24 hour period. The sidewalks full of leaves, drains clogged. I kicked them around a bit, then it started to cloud over again. I came home, heated up some water and had a cup of blackberry sage tea with a bit of honey harvested near my home. So, here are some photos I took.